US AG Pam Bondi says that Meta complied with the DOJ's request to take down a Facebook Page that the agency said was being used to harass ICE agents in Chicago
and we're ready to push back if something like this happens again.” Secretary Kristi Noem / @sec_noem : Anti-ICE radicals are using social media apps to dox, threaten, and terrorize the brave men and ...
Apple removes Eyes Up, which simply archives videos of ICE abuses, from the App Store; unlike ICEBlock, Eyes Up doesn't share ICE officers' real-time locations
and it's not masked agents of ICE www.404media.co/apple-banned... Benn Jordan / @bennjordan : Your smartphone manufacturer doesn't think you deserve 1st or 4th amendment rights. — www.404media.co/ap...
White House says the $100K H-1B fee will not apply to renewals or existing H-1B holders re-entering the US, only to future applicants in the February lottery
not $100K toll booths. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick / @reichlinmelnick : They need to PUT THIS IN WRITING. Because right now it's anonymous officials versus the actual words in the actual ban on entry that ...
Trump extends the TikTok ban deadline for a third time; there is no legal basis for the extensions, and it's unclear how many times the deadline can be extended
Again NZ Herald : Trump gives TikTok 90 more days to find buyer, again delayed ban Joe DePaolo / Mediaite : ‘Brazenly Illegal’: Conservatives Lash Out at Trump for Executive Order Sidestepping TikTok ...
Memo: the Trump admin pauses new student visa interviews as it mulls requiring all foreign students applying to study in the US to undergo social media vetting
Social Media Posts Could Block Your Entry Jennifer Hansler / CNN : State Department orders embassies to pause new student visa appointments as it moves to expand social media vetting Ed Morrissey / Ho...
Twitter replaces the week-old “US state-affiliated media” label on NPR's account with a new label describing the nonprofit media company as “Government Funded”
This is how it sounds when outlets like NPR insist on staying on Twitter. — #Twitter Damon Kiesow / @dkiesow@social.kiesow.net : I understand this new policy is the result of Elon having a lot of “g...
US judge in California issues a preliminary injunction halting Commerce Department's order banning downloads of WeChat from Sunday
one with a deal, the other with a judge's help Edvard Pettersson / Bloomberg : Trump's WeChat Curbs Halted by Judge on Free Speech Concerns David Shepardson / Reuters : Wall Street Journal : WeChat B...
An in-depth look at how ICE, under Obama and then Trump, has aggressively used big data, fed by social media, to clamp down on undocumented immigrants
a testament to the agency's quiet embrace of big data. https://www.nytimes.com/... “Surveillance works best when you don't notice it.” Tim Shorrock / @timothys : NYT reports that, via public record re...